Celestial Vibes, in This Life and in Second Life™

I’m trying something new…

Image from Second Life of a fairy with light blueish skin & long navy & purple hair, wearing fairy wings with auroras, stars, and nebulae
Iridescent fairy wings with a spacey night sky painted on them, with auroras, nebulae and stars, with gold veins & antennae, worn on a dress form, front view.

I've made a real life set of Datura fairy wings in the Aurora colorway, this time laminated on the clear Diamond Fire film with gold veins.
AND, I've decided to release a celestial themed collection of wing textures for the Teasel 3.0 fairy wings in Second Life around the same time!

These real life wings along with a couple other new unpainted colorways plus a repeat or two will be listing tomorrow, Friday July 18 at 8pm PDT so mark your calendars. I haven't had a chance to photograph the other 2 new wings but they are a set of simplified Fayette wings in clear Diamond Fire with copper veins, and a set of Kira wings in Poison Apple film with gold veins. I'll update again here or make a new post to let you all know when those photos are up.
As usual, the wing listings won't show until the start time at this link:
https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/collections/flash-sales

The Second Life celestial themed texture packs will hopefully be released tomorrow, but I’m not 100% sure, it might be some time this weekend if I get into a time crunch getting the RL listings ready. But thankfully, with digital content, you don’t have to worry about anything selling out.
The wings are the only thing in that image made by me, the rest is of the avatar are purchased content or group gifts from other creators. Once I have a chance to breathe I’ll get back in world to get the details so I can credit them here in case you’d like to grab the gown or any of the other things.
The ears, metal ear accessories and necklace are by Illusions, hair by Doux, skin by Nuve. I’ll add more later and will be posting more pics of the wings, as this isn’t the only colorway I’ll be offering them in ;)

In addition, I’ll be posting about the SL wings content on PrimFeed, which is a newish site just for Second Life content.
You can follow me there too:
https://www.primfeed.com/violaine.villota
*Fair warning, there is adult content in SL and on PrimFeed, so make sure to use the filters - although once in a while people post images that should be rated as Adult+ that they didn’t rate appropriately, in case you’re sensitive to that kind of content.
I may share images that contain artistic nudity if a blogger made an amazing image using my wings, but that’s my personal threshold.

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The Return of Fancy Fairy Wings in Second Life™

It’s been over 5 months that I’ve been quietly working nights & weekends to learn Blender and make proper mesh animated fairy wings in Second Life, and they are now complete!
Below is a quick peek at them in one of the colors (from the gender queer flag) from the Pride edition.

They aren’t ‘my’ flag colors - those would be the demi / ace, but this matched my Magnolia dress from Caverna Obscura too perfectly!
The Pride flag inspired pack of Iridescent Teasel 3.0 Bento Fairy Wings is now available, exclusively at the Androgyny Event at an introductory price through July 28!

25% of each sale of these is automatically donated to Second Pride & the It Gets Better non profit.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Calico%20Bay/165/58/2504

Here’s the product photo for ya

The essentials pack is also available there, as well as at my in world store and Marketplace. They cost 50L less in world, and current pricing of $350L is a lower introductory price.
Find them at the MP here:

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Teasel-30-Iridescent-Bento-Fairy-Wings/27294913

Here’s the vendor image for them:

Image showing a female fairy with back turned towards us, her hands over her head & wings of light blue, magenta & white take up most of the image space. Text says 'Essentials Pack'

These are 100% original mesh and design. You may have seen this design on the grid (and a whole lotta places online) from people who've copied them in various forms without my permission, but I created this design way back in 2008 for SL and RL.

I made wings, clothes and skins back then before I dipped out for years due to outdated hardware & life struggles.

In 2017 I made some wings that used the bento bones and animations I made in Blender, but the wings themselves were flexi prims because I was so attached to the way flexi prims move in SL. But now I’m calling them ‘franken-flexi’ because of the issues that crop up with them - they required specific body heights & didn’t work for all avatars, and the big square prims would have a lot of alpha glitch with other partially transparent items, which was way more noticeable when a whole square area is glitching.

This time, I worked my fairy butt off nights and weekends learning how to make a proper mesh in Blender and made my own wing rig that allowed me to animate the upper and lower wing panels separately. Something I wish was possible in real life!
I also had help from an old SL friend, Siyu Suen of Illusions to get me up to speed on Blender and other things I needed to know about SL along with a lot of encouragement. I don’t know if I could’ve done it without her!

Here’s video of the animation HUD that’s included with the wings so you have a lot of control over what they’re doing:

My designs have often been copied without permission in SL

Many of my designs have been copied in Second Life, some ripped right from my SL wings and others used my RL wing photos as their designs & textures. Some made their own mesh but still copied the design itself rather than come up with something on their own.
This Teasel design was copied vein for vein a few years ago & became a best seller, by Aenea Christensen, who admitted to copying them but was still terrible about it all, and has been lying about me and the situation. Now on the changed version they state that their previous edition was ‘removed due to a malicious DMCA report’.
That’s pretty laughable seeing as how they’d already admitted to copying mine, specifically the veins, which is literally the core of the design. I had left comments in response to the claim that it was ‘malicious’ as I was upset they were lying about the situation, and this below was their response.

These days I wouldn’t bother to interact at all with an infringer’s content this way, and give the facts if necessary in my own space instead such as my own blog. Maybe I shouldn’t have left a review at all, I can acknowledge that. But it’s still upsetting to think someone is out there lying about my business & possibly harming sales when they were the ones to do something illegal.
Their links to wings they claim are the same were literally nothing at all like my Teasel design, but I’m sure they tell people I copied a nature design to deflect. They may be generally similar to fly wings, but there’s no duplicate of these in nature.
I’m also SO tired of the argument “you can’t copyright fairy wings” as if I’m trying to claim ownership of every single fairy wing out there, which I’m absolutely not. It’s a strawman argument I get all the time when people have no other good excuse.
I know, there’s the whole ‘you shouldn’t care what other people say about you’ but when it comes to someone’s reputation as a creator selling their art, especially when they’re just returning to the market & having to compete with people selling copies, I’d say it does matter.

Brands who’ve copied multiple wing designs

My Colette wing design was even offered as full perm in SL by Les Sucreries De Fairy, with only the inner veins changed a bit, but the unique outer profile was fairly exact. That shape is specific. They were also selling wings that copied pretty exactly the outer shape of my Fauna wings, and exact copies of my Acorn wings, and some that copied a lot of the outer shape of my Nimue wings. I sold the Nimue wing in SL, they might still be in my in world shop, and the others are all newer wings whose photos are always watermarked by me whenever posted anywhere online. You can see them for yourself if you click on the design names.
So the fact that they were selling that many copies of my wings is not cool. I reached out after reporting a couple of them and asked her to remove the remaining ones & not to copy mine or anyone else’s wings again. Although she did remove the remaining wings I never got a reply or an explanation at all. The lack of an explanation or apology and the number of designs they copied, one of them full perm plus the size of their store and prevalence in many in world market events, warrant mentioning IMO. If I bought a stolen design I’d want to know myself.
Their latest wings look like they could be using someone’s photo as a texture but I don’t know that for sure, so take that with a grain of salt. If anyone sees more copies of additional designs please let me know. Below are screenshots of the copies except for the Nimue, which I didn’t grab screenshots of in time. They might still be in her Flickr somewhere, the texture inside was like a bright mozaic.

I've also recently discovered my Pansy, licensed Amy Brown Bubble Rider, Bee fairy, and Nimue wings sold by Cherry Evergarden of Enchanted Delights & had them all removed via DMCA. As you can see, she used my actual photos and in the case of the Nimue wings she even used my texture from the SL wings I sold. These screenshots will show today’s date in the metadata because I originally took a PDF screenshot of the listings as it captured the entire page that way, but that won’t work for posting to this blog. I never heard from them, they simply relisted the costumes with different wing designs.

I also found my photos of my Painted Small Lizette wings copied & used as a wing texture sold by Faunus, and they used my Fly fairy wings photo for wings in an event hunt.
This was really disappointing, as I had admired their work and they’re a pretty well known brand for fantasy costuming & accessories in SL for fairies. I took a chance & reached out to them on Facebook to ask for removal since the hunt item would be tough to report. They replied and apologized, and they did remove the items.
Then they asked if I’d let them continue selling them & give me a percentage of sales. I politely declined, and after they acknowledged that, they blocked me. I appreciate that they did remove the content and apologized, but why on earth did they block me? That soured things when we could have possibly carried on as professional acquaintances & I was even planning on buying some of their outfits had they left things at the apology without blocking.
But not now. That’s a deal breaker for me, being blocked after getting caught infringing is always a bad sign leaves no room for trust. I don’t think I said anything that warranted that. Receipts below.

All these infringements may cause confusion to the customer who will question which one is the original, especially if the infringer sweeps it under the rug without notifying their audience of their removal. There are only a couple instances where they more than made up for things & even paid me without me asking, so all is forgiven and I won’t ever need to mention them.
I’ve never received a penny from any of the rest, most never bother with an apology either.

I am a staunch supporter of copyright, and creating something brand new is the fun part for me, so you won't find purchased stock photos or art in my wing work. I also don't enjoy using designs straight from nature as much as I do creating a fantasy design, so wearing my wings means you won't have the same stock designs that many other creators offer.

I may dabble in drastically re-texturing & styling full perm mesh clothing for fairies to go with my wings while I'm still working on my mesh skills, since making fitted mesh clothes from scratch seems like some kind of torture I can't wrap my brain around yet, but I'd have to be sure they're reputable & will state who the mesh is from if that happens.

I hope to populate my store in the coming months with more new wings, to bring all the fairies back to SL.

Ready to Ship Wing Drop Sunday, June 29 at 7pm PDT

I’ll have 6 sets of ready-to-ship fairy wings this Sunday the 29th at 7 Pacific Daylight Time, starting with these Titania painted fairy wings in Electric Rainbow!

Iridescent rainbow fairy wings with elongated slightly downward curved tips on upper panels, and small tail that swoops up from bottom panels, worn on a dress form, front view

The Electric Rainbow Titania wings will be $339 plus shipping. They have the 2 layers of vinyl instead of 3, and moving forward I think that's how the painted wings will be made as it saves a little time and material costs now that tariffs have increased pricing on things. The veins are copper. I wanted to have these done earlier in the month in time for people to wear them to Pride events, but life has been life-ing and I got behind. I don't think rainbows ever go out of style though, especially for fairies, and LGBTQ pride should be a constant thing.
Although I donated quite a bit a couple years ago to the Transgender Law Center, I can't afford any significant donations right now so I hope whoever buys them will consider donating to them or a similar organization as the Trump admin keeps up their attacks on the trans community.

The next new wing set is the simplified Cosette in Autumn Night with black veins.

Large orange / green iridescent fairy wings featuring antennae along the top and a spikey profile, worn on a dress form, front view

The simple Cosette wings will be $345.
I'll also have a repeat set of Titania and Kira fairy wings in clear Diamond Fire with copper veins for $195 each, a set of simple Fayette wings in Opal with gold veins for $345, and painted Electric Rainbow Pansy wings with copper veins for $450.
I was hoping I could squeeze out at least one more set but I don't know if that will happen or not, if it does it will be a surprise :)

As usual, all the wings will show up at the start time here:
https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/collections/flash-sales

If you’d like to support me further, consider joinging my Patreon where even free members will get earliest notification of new designs and sales:
https://www.patreon.com/c/faeryangela

Friday the 13th Is a Lucky Day for Fairies

This Friday the 13th of June at 8pm PDT I’ll be having a small ready to ship wing sale.

Large iridescent fairy wings with antennae in blues, purples with touches of yellow and red, worn on a dress form, front view

I decided to mix it up a bit, and paired the Datura uppers with the Pansy lowers to make a hybrid, painted in varying shades of blue with touches of purple, pink, red & yellow.
They will be $465, and like the last set these have 2 total layers of vinyl versus the 3 that I was doing before so I could bring down the cost a bit and cut down a little production time.

Large transparent iridescent blue fairy wings with black veins, worn on a dress form, front view

I then paired the Datura bottoms with the Pansy uppers, done in Opal with black veins. Those will be $260.

I'll also have repeat colorways of the Titania and Kira wings, and that may be it for this sale.

Remember, the wings wont show up until the start time, Friday June 13th at 8pm PDT at this link: https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/collections/flash-sales

And, NGL I’m pretty anxious about this Saturday and what could happen if Tangerine Palpatine has another tantrum & decides to do something bonkers like declare martial law. I hope everyone has a safe & uplifting No Kings Day!

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New Pansy Painted Fairy Wings in 'Iris'

Happy Fairy Friday! This set of Pansy wings painted in the ‘Iris’ colorway with lush aubergine purples, magentas & blues will be available ready to ship on Saturday May 31 at noon PDT.
There will also be a made-to-order sale on Sunday, June 1st at noon!

Iridescent fairy wings with a butterfly-like shape and short 'tails' in purples & blues with touches of pink & orange, back view

I usually start posts with the front view as the main photo, but this photo of the back had such a beautiful mix of colors that I had to make it the star! Don't forget to click through to see all of them.

These are the Pansy wings. I'm calling this colorway Iris, which has the same kind of color patterning that the Water Lily ones have but with rich aubergine purples & fucshia, touches of blue & bits of orange in the 'eyes'. It's definitely one of my favorites and I hope it's yours too.
This time I tried it without that extra 3rd layer of clear vinyl on the print, as this new batch seems to dry faster without any tackiness and it worked out fine!
It is costing a little more now so it won't be a huge price difference, but I'm able to bring it down to $450 plus shipping rather than $490. It also doesn't take quite as long to laminate which is a bonus for me & allows me to lower the price a bit.

These will be listing Saturday, May 31 at 12pm PDT ready to ship.

I wanted to have more wings to offer ready to go, but I was working on orders that are due and ran low on vinyl before I realized it. It's on the way but I won't have it till Monday.

So, I'm going to have a Made-To-Order sale the next day on Sunday, June 1 at 12pm where I'll have Datura, Fayette, Cosette, Kira and Titania wings.
I may offer the Kira wings as painted and allow the option to have the others painted with an additional fee. The Cosette would cost more to have painted though. The older cut file got used, and that version has a bottom panel that's too large to do a print from my printer so I'd need to send out for a print for it.
I have to make a giant set anyway that I'll have to get printed from that vendor so I can do them both at the same time if you really want those.
They'd be $600 painted.
I think I'll try making painted wings without the extra layer from now on unless it's requested in a special order, so they can be a little more affordable during this tariff roller coaster we're all on in the US.
I'm still on the struggle bus myself and would rather they sell than sit here.
They'll be listed at their ready to ship prices, with black veins.

I'm also almost caught up with special orders, there's only 3 left, with one of them still needing a color choice from the customer, so I'm open to more special orders.
I have black veined frames right now of all the designs listed above, gold will be next, and then I think silver or copper after that.

Below are the new prices for painted / printed wings if you choose to upgrade from the MTO black veined listings:

Datura (would be $450)

Fayette (would be $550)

Cosette (would be $600)

Kira (would be $360)

Titania (would be $350)

Remember, the listings won't show up until their start time.

The Pansy 'Iris' wings will list on Saturday, May 31 at 12pm PDT.
The made-to-order wings will list on Sunday, June 1 at 12pm PDT.

They will be available here:
https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/collections/flash-sales

*If you've been waiting for your wing order, they are done or nearly done - I only have one to fully laminate and one that needs the lower panels finished - but I'm waiting on the vinyl to arrive as well as the inner cardboard padding for shipping. For some reason that cardboard stuff has been out of stock everywhere locally and taking a long time to ship, but it's supposed to show up Monday.

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Light & Bright Fairy Wings for the Summer Season

Summer’s almost here, and these white veined wings will be perfect for those airy light colored summer festival outfits! They will list Tuesday, May 20 at 8pm PDT.

Large painted iridescent fairy wings in berry colors with white veins. Upper panels are elongated with pointed tips, curved ‘tail’, worn on a dress form, front view

The first set is the Colette (above), painted in an 'Iced Berry' colorway on the clear Diamond Fire film, with white veins. They will be $495 plus shipping.

Large transparent yellow/orange/green iridescent fairy wings with white veins. Upper panels are elongated with pointed tips, 2 lower panels curve downward, worn on a dress form, front view

Then there are the Fayette wings, above, simplified version without the extra vinyl veins in clear Diamond Fire Film with white veins for $345 plus shipping.

Large iridescent green fairy wings with white veins. Upper panels are elongated with pointed tips, curved ‘tail’, worn on a dress form, front view

Last, I'll have another set of the Colette, above, simplified version without the extra vinyl veins, in the minty Patina Green film with white veins. They will be $329.

When the sale starts, the wings will be available here:
https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/collections/flash-sales

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Bird Inspired Painted Fairy Wings and More

There will be a ready-to-ship flash sale this Friday, May 9 at 7pm PDT!

Brightly colored iridescent fairy wings in oranges, yellows, teals and blues with black veins, antennae along the top, worn on a dress form. Front view

I thought I’d give the warm orangey colors some love after focusing on the purple / green / blue spectrum for a while.
The Datura wings painted in the Bee Eater colorway are inspired by the bee eater bird's feathers! If you’re a bird lover, you can read more info about them here. Last photo shown is by Pierre Dalous, via Creative Commons.
I originally made them in an extra large size with gold veins for a client a few years ago, and thought I'd make another set in the standard large size. They aren't the colors I usually gravitate to but I think they're pretty eye-catching. They will be $490.

Rose gold iridescent transparent fairy wings with antennae and tails on the bottom panels with white veins, worn on a dress form, front view

The second set shown are a set of Fauna wings with Guinevere bottom panels in Rose Gold with white veins. I converted the Gwen panels by cutting off the 'legs' that the old style of my wings had and drilled holes in the base so they could be made into the convertible style.
My drilling was a bit off though, so although they will still look like this, you'll want to use the middle and bottom hole instead of the top and bottom ones for the static assembly and of course as always you can cover the hardware with faux flowers. They will be $279.

Large transparent blue/green dragonfly-like iridescent fairy wings with white veins have 3 elongated panels on each side, worn on a dress form, front view

These Fayette wings (above) in Opal with gold veins will also be available, in the simplified version without the additional intricate vinyl vein layer to make them more affordable at $349 rather than the typical price of roughly $600 for those extra veins. These have some very minimal irregularities in the vein color so I’ve reduced the price slightly further, though I don’t even know if you’d be able to notice.

Iridescent transparent gold / orange / green fairy wings with small tails & white veins worn on a dress form, front view

Finally we have the Titania fairy wings in clear Diamond Fire with white veins (above) which will be $195.

I was going to try to squeeze in another set of wings but I may not make it in time. If that’s the case I’ll probably have another small drop next week.

As usual, the wing listings won't show up until the start time Friday, at this link:
https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/collections/flash-sales

If you’d like to support me, a struggling autistic ADHD artist with depression living under America’s fascist rule, you can subscribe to my Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/c/faeryangela

Painted 'Pastel Rainbow' Fauna Fairy Wings

These Fauna wings painted in a pastel rainbow colorway with gold veins & Opal iridescent film will be listing Monday, April 28 at 8pm PDT!

Iridescent pastel rainbow fairy wings with downward curved tips, antennae and appendages, with gold veins, worn on a dress form, front view

They will be $490 plus shipping.
I decided on the rainbow palette since it's Autism Acceptance Month.
Autism Awareness Month & associating it with the color blue was started by Autism Speaks, which is known to be really problematic in the way their organization treats and talks about autistic people. So, many of us celebrate it as acceptance month instead, with rainbow colors rather than blue and instead of the puzzle symbol, the infinity symbol is used.
It's my first Autism Acceptance Month as an officially diagnosed person, and, I am in no shape to donate to any organizations right now. I'll spare you the sob story since I've already written about the sad state of my bank account, but hey if you buy these wings you'll be directly supporting an autistic artist - me!

Like my autism, the painted rainbows on these may not be obvious at first, and take a closer look at different viewpoints to see the full spectrum.
If you're new here, I'm very late diagnosed at 50 just last year. It was also through Kaiser, which I thought was impossible as it took years to get. Don’t let them tell you it’s not available, they can refer out for an evaluation for adults if they don’t have someone available onsite.

I managed to finish one more ready-to-ship set of fairy wings for the flash sale, these simplified Colette wings in clear Diamond Fire with black veins - without the extra vinyl veins.

Transparent & iridescent fairy wings reflecting yellow, orange & green with black veins, upper and lower panels are elongated with pointed tips, & curved up ‘tail’ on bottom, worn on a dress form, front view

They will be $329 plus shipping. I think I may start selling the Pixish Collection wings like this, without the vinyl veins while people are reducing their spending.

Let me also say, although the Trump admin is doing everything they can to belittle & scare us with their privacy violating autism registry, I'm not hiding. Fuck that. Knowing I'm autistic and being able to let everyone else know has helped my mental health & I think makes it a bit easier to be understood.
And if they ever round us up to put us in some camp, y'all better set up a big GFM to get me out!
I hear they're walking back on that registry now however, after activism & outrage over it, but they're still 'investigating' the cause of autism and will probably collect information from health insurers to do so. In other words, they're probably going to somehow (wrongfully) conclude that vaccines cause autism so they can restrict access to them & carry out their eugenics plans. Denying covid is a part of that as well - disabled people have been viewed as disposable, and BIPOC people too.
Do you remember how when news came out about how not only medically vulnerable and autistic people, but BIPOC people are also more negatively affected by covid? And after that officials stopped trying to contain it & everyone's masks started coming off even though the vaccines can't fully prevent infection? Yeah I think there was a reason for that.

Anyway....

A quick note for those in the EU who want to buy wings - I can’t ship to the EU anymore due to their new requirements to hire a broker, etc, but I’ve learned there’s a service called AddressPal that can give you a US address for purchasing, and they then forward the package to you. It does NOT exempt you from any customs fees or import taxes, but they handle all that red tape for us & take care of the customs stuff! I’ve had a customer use it and it worked just fine.

I've also dropped off a batch of wing frames to get powder coated in white, so if you've been waiting for white veined wings keep a close eye out for flash sale announcements in the next few weeks. I'm also open to a few special orders right now as well as I’m catching up on previous orders, and will be getting more frames cut very soon so if you have any requests please get in touch.

There are also still made to order giant wings.
You can find those, and these new wings after 8pm Monday here: https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/collections/flash-sales

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